Jay:
Did the error generate a trace file?
Jon Walthour, BSCD
Oracle DBA
Computer Horizons
Cincinnati, Ohio
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From: Miller, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 6/12/01 3:30:31 PM
I'm doing a test upgrade from 8.0.4 to
Jay:
You may have some semaphore stuff screwed up... (i'm not a UNIX Admin and I
don't play one on TV) I ran into this before too. We had to bounce the box
to fix the problem.
Kevin
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:31 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I'm
There is always the ultimate last resort Jay. If you can not stop the DB
any other way you can always kill all of its processes.
This is not recommended as a way or normally stopping a DB, but I have used
it in the past when I was out of choices.
After killing the processes, I brought the
That's what I ended up doing. While I was struggling with it I was told by
my boss that the decision was made that we can't install the 8.1.6.3 patch
because we only have 8.1.6.2 in QA. So I've killed the database entirely
(processes and files) and am now reinstalling 8.1.6 from the beginning
